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Heredity and Fertility

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As Prof. Karl Pearson in his paper β€œOn the Law of Ancestral Heredity,” published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, alludes to an investigation which he has apparently commenced into the inheritance of fertility in man, it may be of interest now to publish one which I completed some years ago, but which for various reasons has not appeared in print.

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COLLINS, F. Heredity and Fertility. Nature 59, 5–6 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/059005c0

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